Distributed Cognition at/in Work: Strickland, Lawson Jaramillo, and Ryan's slippingglimpse

Authors

  • N. Katherine Hayles University of California

Abstract

Slippingglimpse exemplifies how distributed cognition is being imagined and instantiated in contemporary electronic literature. The structure enacts a threefold recursive cycle between human and non-human cognizers in which the water 'reads' the poem text, the videography 'reads' the water, and the poem text 'reads' image capture technology. The work raises profound questions about the nature of 'reading' in the digital age, the collaborations possible between human and non-human agents, and the significance of the recursive loops that connect humans to the environment.

Author Biography

  • N. Katherine Hayles, University of California

    N. Katherine Hayles (1943) is the John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches and writes on the relation of literature, science, and technology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999) won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-1999, and Writing Machines (2002) won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Her most recent book is Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (2008) from the University of Notre Dame Press. She is presently at work on a book on the interactions of narrative and data.

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2008): Cyberpoetics

Section

Main Section

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How to Cite

Hayles, N. K. (2026). Distributed Cognition at/in Work: Strickland, Lawson Jaramillo, and Ryan’s slippingglimpse. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 21(1), 30-52. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27497